Exposure to household air pollution from biomass-burning cookstoves and HbA1c and diabetic status among Honduran women.

ABSTRACT: Household air pollution from biomass cookstoves is estimated to be responsible for more than two and a half million premature deaths annually, primarily in low and middle-income countries where cardiometabolic disorders, such as Type II Diabetes, are increasing. Growing evidence supports a link between ambient air pollution and diabetes, but evidence for household air pollution is limited. This cross-sectional study of 142 women (72 with traditional stoves and 70 with cleaner-burning Justa stoves) in rural Honduras evaluated the association of exposure to household air pollution (stove type, 24-hour average kitchen and personal fine particulate matter [PM2.5 ] mass and black carbon) with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and diabetic status based on HbA1c levels. The prevalence ratio (PR)

SUBMITTER: Rajkumar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6292747 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature